יָבַם
ya.vam
1. (Piel) to perform levirate marriage, perform the duty of a brother-in-law
a. the duty due to a brother who died childless - to marry his widow and have a son for his name
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Concordance 3 verses
- Genesis 38:8 וְיַבֵּ֣ם
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Deuteronomy 25:5 וְיִבְּמָֽהּ׃
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
- Deuteronomy 25:7 יַבְּמִֽי׃
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
